The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1887-09-29
TERRITORIAL NEWS.
Items of Interest From Both Sides
Of the Divide.
Notes Clipped and Condensed From
Exchanges Published Within
the Territory.

Exchanges Published Within
the Territory.
The track on the Helena & Northern
is now laid seven miles and the company
hope to have trains running to Marys-
vile by the middle of October.
The Northern Pacific has issued, to
take effect September 9th, new stock
tariff that embodies a number of great
reduction on cattle and sheep from Bill
lings, Merrill and Helena.
Patrick Griffin, who met with an acci-
dent at Townsend, last week, while driv-
ing reaper, is pronounced out OF dan
ger by the attending physician. His leg
is not broken, as at first thought.
Will Thomas, stock inspector of Cho-
teau county, says horses are dying in
large numbers on the Dearborn and in
that vicinity. The disease is the same
as that on the Chestnut range last fall.
Missoulian: The Missoula bridge was as
far completed Wednesday as to allow the
laying of the track, and it's stability was
tested yesterday morning at 7 o'clock by
the locomotive and eight cars of ties and
steel.
Last Thursday morning at o'clock
Clara Gilchrist, alias "Big Clara"
waiter girl at the Theater Comique died
at her room on Lower Arizona street,
Butte, from an overdose of morphine.
The drug was not taken with suicidal
intent.
The contract for the grading Of the
Rocky Fork & Cooke City railroad has
been let to Jones & Francis. Mr.. Jones,
of this firm, is we'll known railroad con-
tractor in Northern Pacific construction
days, having run the Jones cut on the
Bozeman divide.
A race has been arranged to take place
between Jack Dowd's horse, which bears
his name, and bay fi]ly owned by R. P.
Burch, at Anaconda The race is to be
for $3.50 a side, and quarter of mile
distance, Anaconda will back the tilly
to considerable extent on the side.
! There was big meeting at Great Falls
last Saturday, to make arrangements to
celebrate the completion of the Manitoba
grade to that point. 1t is practically fin
ished. The construction of the branch
line to Sand .Coulee starts this week.
Chief Engineer Roberts and other rail-
! road men are III town.
Inter Mountain, Gath: Information
was received in Butte to-day that Judge
Galbraith was injured by a bucking
broncho tho day before yesterday. He
had gone cut on hunt with Frank Mills
when the accident occurred. He was
brought back to Dewey's Flat yesterday
and is comfortably fixed there.
A tourist printer answering the des-
cription of Todd. who worked in the
Chronicle Office during the spring, died
recently at Minot from delirium tremens.
| No name is given by the Mandan Pioneer
which publishes the item, but other cir
cumstances are strongly suggestive that
| Todd is the ynfortunate.-Cou
Surveyor General Greene has received
orders to Immediately arrange for res,1r-
veying the south boundary of the Grow
Indian reservation from the Big Horn
river to the southeastern corner of that
reservation, and from the Montana base
line to the Yellowstone river, along the
eastern boundary of the reserve. The
l ines thus run are to be marked with per-
| manent and substantial monuments. iron
preferred.
One of George D. Patterson's en-
ployes, on a visit to Benton, last Sat-
urday, attempted to pull pistol from
roll Of blankets by the muzzle. It was
d ischarged and inflicted a painful but
not dangerous wound in the hand. An
other Of his employees, out on his Shonkin
ranch, herding sheep, fell, while walking
along the hillside. He was carrying a
Winchester rifle, which dropped from his
grasp and was discharged, irtlicting a
| painful wound in the hip. He was alone,
and it was several hours before he was
able to reach the ranch. Both accidents
| occurred at about the same time.
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